All in one box?

petertr2000 · 18 Jul 2018 at 12:03

Hi,
Looking to replace my RPi3 running OSMC and my Youview box with a single device that would be used for:

Live TV - 2 tuners (either aerial or sat)
Runs torrent client
Can play back 4K HDR locally stored content and pass the audio to my AV Receiver
Ideally compatible with future apps for broadcast 4k too (as in the iPlayer beta for the world cup, which annoyingly didn't work on my Samsung KS7000 despite it having HLG)

Currently use DLNA to stream 4k content from the RPi Kodi instance, but its not especially reliable, and Kodi scraping / library management is really getting tiresome for some reason lately.
And I rarely use the Youview box (but my folks need to replace theirs which broke this morning - so I thought I could kill 2 birds...)

Any suggestions?

hornetstinger · 18 Jul 2018 at 12:45

A htpc

petertr2000 · 18 Jul 2018 at 13:07

hornetstinger said:
A htpc

No simple boxes then?

TheMightyTen · 18 Jul 2018 at 14:16

petertr2000 said:
No simple boxes then?

Vero 4k can do some of it, Shield can do some of it nothing can do all of it.

petertr2000 · 18 Jul 2018 at 15:53

TheMightyTen said:
Vero 4k can do some of it, Shield can do some of it nothing can do all of it.

Bugger.

I've removed the Youview and reverted to the inbuilt tuner - will add a memory stick for Pause/Rewind. We don't watch/record much live TV anyway. So at least that's one less box.
Still stuck with crappy Kodi though. Might try something different.

petertr2000 · 18 Dec 2018 at 20:55

TheMightyTen said:
Vero 4k can do some of it, Shield can do some of it nothing can do all of it.

Bought a shield last week. Nice bit of kit.

Adding an IPTV subscription clears the need to record anything & its configured as my NAS too with USB3 attached storage, so it really is an all in one box. Woo hooo!

TheMightyTen · 19 Dec 2018 at 08:49

petertr2000 said:
Bought a shield last week. Nice bit of kit.

Adding an IPTV subscription clears the need to record anything & its configured as my NAS too with USB3 attached storage, so it really is an all in one box. Woo hooo!

Until the first time it decides to lose the attached storage, drop off the network for no reason or completely decide there is no network connection at all

(These are all currently know and well recorded bugs and have been ongoing for the last 2 years through 3 different Android TV versions

)

jpaul · 19 Dec 2018 at 10:05

would still get one of these over a shield but they did not yet reduce in price (still £199 in my basket), unlike recent shield offers ....
don't know if MS edge would run iplayer uhd ?

afaik OC not in this market, just more powerful/expensive i3 etc mini-PC/NUCS

Beelink SII Mini PC DDR4 4G/128G SSD Intel Gemini Lake Celeron N4100 4K Ultra HD Support Microsoft Cortana Desktop PC (Dual HDMI 2.0/Type-C/SATA3.0/USB 3.0)

petertr2000 · 13 Jan 2019 at 15:48

So far so good with the shield. Had one issue after an update, but turned out it was ES File Explorer "hogging" the drive and not letting the Shield detect it.
Nice and quick, just wish it would share attached storage over the network with SMB3. So far the shield can only connect TO network attached storage using SMB3. Oddly.

Nikumba · 15 Jan 2019 at 14:55

Could look at Plex instead of Kodi